Posted by Joy Wotton on December 16, 2001 at 19:56:26 from 217.32.134.152:
In Reply to: Re: Cherry Picking...? posted by Duncan on December 15, 2001 at 00:24:21:
Duncan writes: Ransome was the better writer and was interested in fairy stories and folklore from the point of view of a story-teller whereas Tolkien was interested in such things from the point of view of a theologian, a scholar and a linguist ... I wouldn't mind sitting down with the correspondence and writing an article about that exchange some time.
So go ahead and write it for next year's MIXED MOSS! Two articles are being prepared - one on the original Russian stories on which OLD PETER'S TALES are based, and the other on the meaning of the fairytales; so an article about Tolkein and AR at the time some of us get wildly excited about the release of the second Lord of the Rings film would be great.
Lobelia (it's the fixation with teaspoons)